The noble science : a few general ideas on fox-hunting, for the use of the rising generation of sportsmen, and more especially those of the Hertfordshire hunt club . is hounds or servants. It is his fault,and his only, if they are not what they should be. Ithas been most truly said, that a little knowledge is adangerous thing. A man may commit a fatal error inunlimited exercise of absolute authority, if he presumetoo much upon an undue estimate of his own judgment;but as, according to the military regulation for the useof discretionary power, we are told to act accordingto conscience, the best
The noble science : a few general ideas on fox-hunting, for the use of the rising generation of sportsmen, and more especially those of the Hertfordshire hunt club . is hounds or servants. It is his fault,and his only, if they are not what they should be. Ithas been most truly said, that a little knowledge is adangerous thing. A man may commit a fatal error inunlimited exercise of absolute authority, if he presumetoo much upon an undue estimate of his own judgment;but as, according to the military regulation for the useof discretionary power, we are told to act accordingto conscience, the best of our understanding, and thecustom of war in the like cases, so will no man err * Having, however, thus raised them, he must never relax—never thinkhe has finished a good work, or be tempted to exclaim opus exegi—of thatwhich is never entirely exactum. Many have retrograded, from too firm areliance on their own footing. 222 THE NOBLE SCIENCE. if he take for his guide the leading theory, and actaccording to the most approved practice of those whoserule has passed into a law, applying each principle, ashe best may, to the circumstances of his own peculiar.
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